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Should I buy Bitcoin? The increase in the price of Bitcoin over the last 12 months is difficult to ignore.

It’s the phenomenon that has captured everyone’s attention. A year ago one Bitcoin was worth around USD900, but now it is trading at USD11,347 – after reaching an eye watering USD19,206 in December. It is therefore inevitable that everyone is asking the same question – Should I buy Bitcoin?Continue reading “Should I buy Bitcoin?”

Over the last year blockchain and cryptocurrencies have made the leap from being the domain of geeks and technology early adopters to capturing the public’s imagination.

News about Bitcoin or Ethereum, or any one of the hundreds of Initial Coin Offering (ICOs) that happened last year is hitting our newsfeeds with increasing regularity. Stories of “Bitcoin millionaires” and people making fortunes trading cryptocurrencies are shared with enthusiasm by the cryptobelievers, while the cryptosceptics post articles about Warren Buffett and his belief that “in terms of cryptocurrencies, generally, I can say with almost certainty that they will come to a bad ending.”